I think all the hotels needed it and they have worked through some with some more to come.

But all of the announcements are of things coming in the future, if D23 is the only place these things are announced it likely means we are 5 years from seeing a new attraction. A themed refurbishment to a hotel isn't really what i hoped for.

Even more firm news of the marvel show replacing cinemagique would have been welcome. I'm kind of hoping that big announcements, such as a reworking of Studios, for Paris are kept for events in France rather than D23 in the US.

Would hope that you are right and that Disney would announce things independently of D23 and make a big deal of announcements in the Park itself.

Disney have lost 4m visitors to Disneyland Park in the last 5 years, do you think that the powers that be recognize that not adding anything new to the Park has a lot to do with that?

I think Buzz is the last brand new attraction that has been added to the main park and that was over a decade ago. Reworking Pirates, Star Tours and Space Mountain is good. Getting the rides up to the level they should be anyway is also good and all of it is costly.

Love the other things they have added such as Electroland, Season of the Force and Disney Run. It is starting to be quite close to the other Parks for things like this.

I think I'm actually most excited about the Mickey and Minnie ride. The presentation at D23 made it sound amazing! I definitely hope that makes it to Paris at some point. It'd be perfect for the Studios here too!

^Nice idea. So long as that means it has to be in a theatre (Carthay Circle) at the end of a Hollywood Blvd.

macca1476, I believe you are right. Buzz was the last addition, so Parc Disneyland is way over due. The fact that they have been loosing visitors will not have gone unnoticed, neither by EuroDisney or TWDC. And the latter certainly knows what needs to be done.

Now that there's no shareholders meetings, I wonder just how they would do such big announcements? A D23 Expo isn't happening. It's almost like they think that there are no D23 members in europe. We are constantly overlooked, and pay a premium to be members.

Here's hoping that they, at the very least, do some sort of invited guest presentation (that includes the various DLP fan 'press'). You know that 99% of anything would be warmly receieved.

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